Macon, Georgia

Howdy Y'all!

I am finally in Macon and I have settled in to my new place. I got here last night and immediately felt comfortable with Korinn. The house is beautiful and my room is very nice. They have 3 rescue dogs here and all of them are so sweet and kind. They were all rescued from a sad situation, but they are doing wonderful now. There is also an enormous pot bellied pig named Hamlet. He is my favorite, but he seems quite a bit overweight. He sleeps a lot, and loves cookies. Hamlet and I have those things in common.... He is a big fat boy but will play with you when he wants to. All the horses here are very sweet and kind. I started training and working one this morning, then came in for the afternoon to cool off. Later, Korinn and I took her daughter over to a friend's house, then went to the grocery store. She showed me around downtown Macon, and there is a large country bar there that I want to check out this weekend. There are also a few restaurants that I might go to. I wasn't able to go to the aquarium in Atlanta yesterday because they closed before I got there, so I will take a day trip up there soon. I am also trying to take a day and go to the beach, which I think is in Savannah. I would love to see the beach on the east coast! And the water around here is very warm. I really love Georgia and the universities here are very good. They also have a vet school in Georgia, so it is a prospect I am considering.

This last weekend in Tennessee was very fun though. Friday night, the French girls and I went out to dinner, then to a billiards bar. The bar was very creepy and I found the most normal looking people in there and asked them where a good country bar was in town, so they sent us to a place called Kicks. It was so much fun! It was a local spot, but they had amazing country bands play, line dancing and very polite guys. We obviously stuck out so all the guys wanted to know where we were from and everything. They all asked us to dance and were very nice. Then we went mudding in the middle of the night in a popular mud hole in a truck. It was so much fun to hang out under the stars and enjoy a true southern summer night. Then, Saturday night we went to a backyard rodeo and watched my friends ride broncos and bulls. That was a fun time, but we stayed out very late both nights, so getting up at 6am to leave for Georgia was hard! But I made it to Atlanta, ate wonderful Thai food, said goodbye to my French friend, and headed down to Macon. I really do love it here, and I am excited to see what else this amazing place has to offer.

I am going to start training for barrel racing soon. That is where you ride a horse really fast around 3 barrels in an arena for the best time. If I get good enough, I will enter into a competition at the local rodeo. I am so excited! I may never come home! You guys will all have to come out here to visit me instead!


Im going to eat dinner now, then finish some training with a horse later.


Miss you all!,


Sam